Tracking of overweight from mid-adolescence into adulthood

1 Children health, National Institute of Public Health, Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet, SDU2 Children health, National Institute of Public Health, Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet, SDU

Subtitle:

consistent patterns across socio-economic groups

DOI:

10.1093/eurpub/cks024

Abstract:

Socially differentiated tracking of health and health behaviours may contribute to health inequalities in adulthood. The modifying effect of socio-economic position on the tracking of overweight from mid-adolescence (age 15 years) into adulthood (age 27 years) was assessed in a randomly sampled Danish cohort (n = 561). The tracking was studied by prediction analyses conducted by logistic regression analyses. Strong tracking patterns were found to be independent of socio-economic background.